The start of construction of the first temple in 967 BC to the completion of the physical organized church temple in 1994 AD (periods of forty years as days/weeks) plus 18 years for the Final Tribulation period ending in the year 2012 AD typifies a Spiritual Season of Harvest.

Christ fasted for forty days, then he hungered:

Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Luke 22:16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

Isaiah 58 identifies fasting with the bring of the saving Gospel:

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

4o year period identified with trial then the entering of heaven. After forty-year trial children of Israel entered the Promised Land (a picture of true believers entering heaven):

Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

1. 1,000 years divided by 40 is equal to 25. There is a period of 25 weeks of early and latter rain prior to the start of the 2 Early Rain harvests (Passover and Pentecost).
2. Christ was crucified during the Passover season in AD 33. Pentecost is followed the day after Passover and 49 days. The following day /year after 33 AD would be AD 34. 49 forty -year periods and the following day would be Pentecost 1994.
3. 959 BC -7 Years = 967 BC - 1Kings 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.